ABOUT 3,000 cases of breast cancer have been reported in women in the
South-East geopolitical zone, the health professionals of the Rotary
International District 9140, have said.
Following the trend, the Rotary Club has called on the three tiers of
government to urgently incorporate breast cancer Awareness programme in
their primary health care scheme so as to save the lives of the women.
Briefing the media in Enugu on Monday, on the activities of the
club’s Breast Cancer Awareness Initiative, the coordinator of the
programme, Ogugua Nwankwu, announced that out of the 62 breast cancer
clinics opened in the six South-East states, including Akwa-Ibom, in
2009, her medical team had received over 3,000 cases of breast cancer.
Expressing shock that despite the level of Nigeria’s development
since independence in 1960, most Nigerian women, including young girls,
were not aware of the existence of breast cancer and blamed it on a
faulty national health programme which had ignored such ailments as
breast cancer.
She explained that breast cancer develops when a single cell begins
to multiply out of control and forms a tumor, adding that in this
complex situation, some cells may break away and travel to other parts
of the body to form new tumors.
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